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TIL radioactive cocaine is a diagnostic tool used for Parkinson's Disease

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XBQj TIL if an artist donates a work of their own, they are only allowed to claim tax deductions on the cost of the materials rather than the fair market value of that work.
VM918 TIL that the high land ownership inequality in the UK is still a consequence of the Norman invasion almost 1,000 years ago, when William the Conqueror made all the land in the country his and then distributed it to his allies
x8Ro TIL in New Zealand, you can legally own any firearm you want with a few exceptions and their number of gun deaths have been below 100/year since 1992.
W7yO4 TIL Mana Ashida, the young girl playing the younger version of Mako Mori in Pacific Rim (2013) could not pronounce director Guillermo Del Toro’s name, so he gave her special permission to call him Totoro-san
loXGA TIL there is a subgenre of erotic literature that involves sexual encounters between humans and dinosaurs. Works include titles such as Taken by the T-Rex, Ravished by Triceratops and A Billionaire Dinosaur Forced Me Gay.